International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health
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| description | Peer-reviewed journal |
| Area of Expertise | Medicine and Infectious Diseases |
| language | English |
| publishing company | Elsevier ( Germany ) |
| First edition | 1883 |
| Frequency of publication | 6 issues a year |
| Web link | Website of the journal |
| ISSN (print) | 1438-4639 |
The International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health , abbreviated Int. J. Hyg. Environ. Health , is a scientific journal published by Elsevier on behalf of the Society for Hygiene, Environmental Medicine and Preventive Medicine . The magazine was founded in 1883 by Max von Pettenkofer under the name Archive for Hygiene . In 1929 the name was expanded to Archive for Hygiene and Bacteriology . In 1971, a name change took place in Central sheet for bacteriology, parasite customer, infections and hygiene, Div. 1 Originals, Series B , of 1980, the change in Central sheet for bacteriology, microbiology and hygiene, Series B was followed. In 1989 the name was shortened to Zentralblatt für Hygiene und Umweltmedizin , and in 1992 it merged with the magazine for the whole of hygiene and its border areas: occupational medicine, epidemiology, social medicine, environmental medicine , which was founded in 1955 in the GDR. The last name change so far took place in 2000 in the International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health . The magazine is currently published six times a year. Works are published that deal with epidemiological aspects of environmental toxicology, human biomonitoring and infectious diseases.
The impact factor in 2014 was 3.829. According to the statistics of the ISI Web of Knowledge , the journal with this impact factor ranks 23rd out of 78 journals in the Infectious Diseases category and 18th out of 162 journals in the Public Health, Occupational and Environmental Medicine category.
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the journal ; accessed on September 11, 2015.
- ↑ 2014 Journal Citation Reports, Science Edition (Thomson Reuters, 2015).